Protestors march in Montreal, Wednesday, June 8, 2011. The march was prompted when police shot and killed two people - a homeless man allegedly wielding a knife, and an innocent bystander who was on his way to work at a hospital.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes
Quebec provincial police say they've completed their probe of a Montreal police shooting that left two people dead last June — including an innocent bystander on his way to work.
In a case that made national headlines and prompted an angry anti-police march in Montreal, local officers shot a homeless man during a public disturbance and their gunfire also struck a man who was arriving for work at a nearby hospital.
Provincial police say in a statement that the file has been handed over to Quebec's director of criminal prosecutions.
It will be up to that office to determine whether charges are laid against the police officers.
In Quebec, it is customary when a police force is involved in a shooting that another police force is brought in to handle the investigation.
A provincial police spokeswoman says they won't have anything more to say about the case.
On June 7, Montreal police say they were called when a knife-wielding homeless man was tossing garbage around downtown Montreal.
Police cornered him, ordered him to drop his weapon, and pepper-sprayed him.
Provincial police say that when the man lunged, the local cops opened fire, striking him and a bystander across the street.